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Duncan got hooked on the series at age 11, and can still recite the first line of the first book from memory. But now she’s 20 years old, well outside a children??s book’s intended audience...
According to these two critics, fans like Duncan participate in the great “dumbing-down” of literary culture. Criticism and controversy surrounded the books during their early popularity—adults were admonished for buying the books for their children and for themselves, an obscure children??s book author sued J.K. Rowling for copyright infringement, Christian groups tried to ban the books for promoting witchcraft, and the series made the American Library Association’s Top 10 “most challenged” books of the 1990s...
...under the title “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” and three months later it made its first of 79 appearances on The New York Times fiction bestseller list. In 2000, The New York Times created a special bestseller list for children??s books after publishers complained that the Harry Potter series kept other, deserving adult books off the list...
...play begins with a geographer who wants to explain the story of a country that only existed for one day, told by narrating the life of a boy named Adam. Raised on an uncharted island, Adam is rescued by a group of sailors that tell him a children??s story about the kingdom of Gildoray and its lost prince. Soon, Adam believes that he is actually the lost prince of Gildoray. The rest of the play features short scenes of Adam’s quest for Gildoray, during which he battles pirates, warriors, and gryphons, falls in love...
Other 2007 Jefferson Award winners include Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, Columbia University Health Policy Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, and Harlem Children??s Zone President Geoffrey Canada, along with about 85 other winners...